stale
- Adjective. Having lost its freshness from age; (of food) still edible, but hard or unpleasant from age.
- Adjective. No longer new; no longer interesting; established; old; as, stale news, a stale joke, etc.
- Noun. (obsolete) A bird used as a decoy to trap other birds.
- Noun. (obsolete) Any trap or lure.
- Noun. (obsolete) A low class of prostitute (originally used as a decoy by other criminals).
- Noun. (obsolete) A person's position, especially in a battle-line.
- Noun. (obsolete) An ambush.
- Noun. (obsolete) A division of armed men posted in a specific place, either for an ambush or for other reasons.
- Noun. Urine, especially of horses or cattle.
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